Dr. Franklin

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Dr. Franklin is a fictional villain from The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman television series portrayed by actor, John Houseman and usually considered a fan favorite among viewers of both series.^{[citation needed]}

Franklin, formerly employed by the OSI, was considered a brilliant scientist and a leading pioneer in cybernetic technology alongside his rival Dr. Rudy Wells. He designed and created the fembots, the most deadly adversaries to both Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers.

Franklin also made another breakthrough by designing a prototype weather control satellite which won overwhelming support from top directors at the OSI. However his ideas clashed with OSI Director, Oscar Goldman. Franklin’s proposed using the weather control satellite as a devastating weapon but Goldman saw other ideas as in using it for benefiting geographical problems such as controlling floods and irrigating dry desert climates. Their continuing quarrels eventually led to Franklin's termination of employment at the OSI and his weather control satellite being shelved.

Several years after Franklin's dismissal from the OSI, he devised a plan to get back at Oscar Goldman and to regain control of his experimental weather control device.

Due to funding by Russian finance minister Baron Constantine, he was enabled to construct several fembots to infiltrate the OSI in a scheme to steal back his weather control satellite.